LOBELIA INFLATA mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Pulfords Remarks: Lob. usually calls to mind a light complexioned, fleshly, dyspeptic individual with relaxed muscles, whose case is characterized by deathly nausea, faint, weak stomach; oppression of heart and chest; cough with sneezing, gasping and flatulent eructations; spasmodic contraction of diaphragm; as if heart would stand still; pulse frequent but small; as of a band about chest; dyspnea extreme, agg. slightest exertion; urine generally deep red, depositing a copious, red sediment; cases esp. associated with heart troubles or intermittents. Intermittent forms, esp. in individuals who live in malarial districts, accompanied by affections of bronchi or heart, dyspnea with apprehension of death, with strong constriction of middle of chest, or from least exertion; nausea with cold sweat on face or profuse flow of clammy saliva; spasmodic contraction of diaphragm. Broncho cases. Infants. Neglected cases. Is the ONLY known remedy for: Emptiness and sinking at stomach extending to heart. Is THE leading remedy for: Breathing difficult in or from cold air; sensation as if the heart would cease to beat. Is one of the leaders for: Pale face; deathly nausea; paroxysmal vomiting; breathing asthmatic, spasmodic, difficult while lying; expectoration of mucus; affections of the heart; constriction of the chest; chill at noon; emaciation of old people, and - a more thorough proving. Lob.: THERAPEUTIC HINTS - The great oppression around the heart with gastric symptoms. Borland bl4 You will find that Lob. is not very often indicated, but it does cover a very definite picture, and it has one or two very striking symptoms which, I think, are not covered by any other drug: · The impression you get of Lob-patients is that they are pretty ill. · They look rather pale, and they have a rather sweaty skin surface. They always complain of a feeling of horrible oppression and of a very marked sense of fullness in the chest, which they say they cannot shift at all. · They have a very spasmodic, dry cough, which seems to do them no good and which is always attended by nausea. They want to keep as still as they possibly can, and any movement, any exertion, very much increases their sense of respiratory embarrassment, and also the nausea. · But there is one definite characteristic about the Lob. nausea and that is that it is very greatly relieved by eating or drinking. Accompanying the nausea the patients have a very distressing feeling of emptiness in the epigastrium. · Another characteristic Lob. symptom is that the patients are very liable to develop intensely irritating urticarial patches, accompanied by a generalized tingling of the skin surface. Alternatively, they sometimes develop a localized edema of the chest wall. I remember seeing one patient with a Lob. pneumonia whose chest wall on one side was a great, solid, edematous mass. And as a rule you find that that localized edema is over the affected area. · Another thing you find quite frequently in the Lob. patients is that after a violent paroxysm of coughing they are liable to develop localized patches of ecchymosis. · In these cases there is always a rather fast pulse, which is soft and thready. And, as I mentioned before, there is a very marked aversion to movement of any kind; it increases their respiratory distress, and it also increases their nausea. You will always find a certain amount of air hunger; the patients are more comfortable if there is fresh, circulating air, although they do not like a definite draught. · Mentally, the Lob. patients tend to be rather depressed; they want to be left quiet, they do not want to be disturbed. · There is one other Lob. symptom which sometimes crops up, and that is that in these pneumonic attacks the patients quite frequently complain of very violent sacral pains. They have a good deal of respiratory distress, and one's tendency is to prop them up a bit, but if one does one often finds they complain bitterly of this sacral pain and extreme sacral tenderness. You will see that here you have a very definite symptom picture which is difficult to cover without Lob., so although it is comparatively rarely indicated you do want to know it. Rehman rma1 Compare with: Lob-p. - Respiratory paralysis and nervous exhaustion with Influenza. Compare with: Lob-p. rma1, Phos. k2, Sulph. k2